Jack Steinberger
German-born American physicist
Died when: 99 years 201 days (1194 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger;May 25, 1921 – December 12, 2020) was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter.
He was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Leon M.Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muon neutrino.
Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University (1950–68), and the CERN (1968–86).
He was also a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990.
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